Honorary president: Judith Butcher Honorary vice-president: David Crystal OBE
Tutors
Sue Bennett has been giving courses on personal effectiveness for some years and formerly ran her own company, Training Matters. She currently works for the NHS.
Gillian Clarke, author of the Publishing Training Centre distance-learning course Basic proofreading, has been teaching copy-editing and proofreading skills for a number of years, including for the PTC.
Shena Deuchars worked in the IT industry for ten years as a programmer and trainer before moving into editing documentation and developing web-based training courses. She also teaches an online course for the Open University.
Kathleen Lyle has edited technical material for almost 40 years, both in-house and freelance. She is now full-time freelance and works almost entirely on screen. She is also an indexer and proofreader, and has been a tutor for the Publishing Training Centre's distance-learning course Basic proofreading.
David MacDonald has his own editing, typesetting and project management business, Prepress Projects, and is an experienced trainer in on-screen editing.
Peter Nickol has been a freelance editor and book designer since 1987, specializing in educational music. He is the author of Learning to Read Music (How To Books) and co-author of Pop Music: The text book (Peters Edition). He is also a composer, and recently gained a PhD in composition from the University of Manchester.
Penny Poole is an experienced freelance who writes and edits for a wide range of non-publishers including manufacturers, a national training organization, several charities and various service providers throughout the UK.
Rosemary Roberts is an editorial consultant and freelance copy-editor, specializing in academic and reference works. She was formerly a managing editor of the Grove dictionaries of music and chief copy-editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Besides her SfEP courses, she has created and taught workshops for corporate clients and industry bodies in Britain and abroad.
Christina Thomas has been a freelance editor and proofreader since 1989, working on a variety of non-fiction publications for publishers and commercial organisations. She is a tutor on the Publishing Training Centre's distance-learning course Basic proofreading and has been running tailored in-house training courses since 1996.
Linda Thomas is lecturer in publishing at West Herts College for the degree and postgraduate courses. She has worked for traditional and non-traditional publishers, including Blackwell, Oxford University Press and the Royal College of Surgeons. She has been involved in training courses over ten years, both in-house and externally, for various organizations, including Oxford Women in Publishing and SfEP.
Anne Waddingham has been tutor on several SfEP and Publishing Training Centre editorial courses since 1991. She also specialises in on-screen editing and project management. She authored the on-screen editing chapter in the fourth edition of Butcher's Copy-editing and contributed to the New Hart's Rules.
Lesley Ward has been teaching proofreading and copy-editing skills for a number of years, and is a tutor on the Publishing Training Centre's distance-learning course Basic proofreading.
